Work Quotes

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

We will make our products work out of the box.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Dream big work hard.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you're doing that you're not going to get any minutes?

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.